How to use Google App Engine in Vanuatu

1. What Is Google App Engine?
2. How to use Google App Engine in Vanuatu

Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users.

You can serve your app from your own domain name (such as http://www.example.com/) using Google Apps. Or, you can serve your app using a free name on the appspot.com domain. You can share your application with the world, or limit access to members of your organization.

Google App Engine supports apps written in several programming languages. With App Engine's Java runtime environment, you can build your app using standard Java technologies, including the JVM, Java servlets, and the Java programming language—or any other language using a JVM-based interpreter or compiler, such as JavaScript or Ruby. App Engine also features a dedicated Python runtime environment, which includes a fast Python interpreter and the Python standard library, and a Go runtime environment that runs natively compiled Go code. These runtime environments are built to ensure that your application runs quickly, securely, and without interference from other apps on the system.

With App Engine, you only pay for what you use. There are no set-up costs and no recurring fees. The resources your application uses, such as storage and bandwidth, are measured by the gigabyte, and billed at competitive rates. You control the maximum amounts of resources your app can consume, so it always stays within your budget.

App Engine costs nothing to get started. All applications can use up to 1 GB of storage and enough CPU and bandwidth to support an efficient app serving around 5 million page views a month, absolutely free. When you enable billing for your application, your free limits are raised, and you only pay for resources you use above the free levels.

more here - http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html

To start using Google App Engine, follow this process.

Step 1: Go to appengine.google.com and sign-in using your Google Account.

Step 2: Click the "Create an Application" button. Since this is your first time, Google will send a verification code via SMS to your mobile phone number.

Step 3. Go to report SMS issues here - https://appengine.google.com/waitlist/sms_issues, since Vanuatu mobile operators are not listed - http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/supported_carriers.html
and fill the form including Vanuatu as Country, Digicel as mobile and report issues about connecting problems as Vanuatu TVL/Digicel mobiles are not listed. Reason you must input Digicel in the form as your mobile is because it is listed in other countries already. Giving a new Mobile name e.g. TVL will result in error.

Step 4. Check your mail box later for a confirmation by The Google App Engine Team @appengine.noreply@google.com.

Sample: Hello, You're receiving this email because you indicated you'd had some problems verifying your Google App Engine account using SMS.  We just wanted to let you know we've enabled your account--you should be able to create applications now!

Start using Google App Engine!

If you can't get it to work or you cannot wait for google, use a friends mobile overseas. Philippines is listed too.